If I actually was a Christian, which I was officially brought up as, in so much as my school had a Christian Assembly, RE (Religious Education) was Christian focused, and without my consent, and purely due to societies expectations and pressures put upon parents, I was Christened into the Church of England, I would now feel beyond angry and aggrieved that those beliefs had been hijacked by hate filled fascist fanatics and extremists.
That these complete low-life scum were declaring that ‘my god’ not only condoned, supported but even ordered them to hate others because of the deity or prophets they believe in.
Now there is an irony here, insomuch as the actual god that both religions, Christianity and Islam worship, well it is actually the same god. The only differences are language, interpretation and who is telling the story.
Christianity claims Jesus was the ‘son of god’ but Islam makes no claim that Muhammad is God’s son, nor a god himself, but that he was a messenger and prophet.
Despite what extremists upon both sides will shout out, neither belief supports hate, supports violence nor war or terrorism.
Sadly both beliefs, as with all formal religions, have these extremists, people who believe they have some divine right to talk for their god. It is these extremists that are the problem, and their tools are hate, discrimination, fear and threats, whether based in the now, or the supposed afterlife.
Now for me, a person who carries my own beliefs, that are not formal, not devised by others through lessons, through a church or Temple, but from my own thoughts and life experiences, I still feel a level of ire that these hate and bile filled creatures are taking peoples own beliefs, their comfort, their security and culture from them and bastardising it to fit this narrative of division.
The people spouting this horrific immoral rhetoric do not actually believe in the god you do, if they attend any church at all, which many do not its simply for show, to give a faux truth to their foul words.
These people have no interest in your soul, they don’t truly believe in any gods beyond greed, celebrity and the tools of hate such as division and fear.
Yes there are Muslim Paedophiles, there are also white, Christian, Catholic, Protestant, Methodist, even Quaker Paedophiles, I doubt their is any religion or non religion that can claim not to have such offenders.
And yes there are Muslim grooming gangs, as there are again Christian ones, as a Social Worker with many years of experience in Child Protection, I know of many very organised gangs, communities and even huge families that groom, abuse and even kill children, including extremely young babies.
Sadly when you point this out to the haters, their response is always, “well there are more Muslims doing it than ‘white’ people”.
Actually that’s not likely to be in any way correct, their statements also display their confusion, and destroy their arguments that they are not technically racist, because Islam is not a race, however they in this one sentence admit that they see Islam as an Asian religion, and do not recognise that there are ‘white’ Muslims, therefore they are actually racists.
That again confuses me a little, that they are so offended when outed, and then called racist, despite that being exactly the label they truly carry with their twisted pride.
Now again, I definitely no longer describe myself as religious, and certainly not a Christian, for if I did, I would see myself as a hypocrite, but if you are someone who takes comfort and pride in your personal beliefs, maybe you should feel anger, and it should be firmly aimed at those perverting your belief base as a tool to further these vile plans to divide us all. Focus that anger on the puppet masters of these corrupt immoral people who are absolutely intent upon their goal to destroy your friendships, families and communities, purely in order for their actual paymasters being able to exert more control over all the people. A nation so divided by fear and hate, folk so weakened by that division, that even when things become unliveable, freedoms and rights are stolen. A society where poverty becomes so extreme that it takes many more lives than we are currently told it does. Where we as the citizenship of Britain become so restricted by new laws and legislation, oppressive laws which we have given them free reign to write into the unwritten constitution of the United Kingdom, that means we can no longer think certain thoughts never mind even be allowed to speak freely,
These actions use your beliefs in such a way they are purely to divert the peoples attention away from the true causation of the poverty, the struggles, the unemployment, the hate, the aggression, the violence, are to protect those really in control, the ones who own these heroes of fascism such as Farage, Robinson, Lowe, Hopkins, to stop you, us, standing against murder, cruelty, abuse, expansionism, oppression and genocide.
All of their tactics are measured, organised and controlled by people far brighter than Farage, Robinson and those previously named.
Now I am likely someone you have never met, many if not all reading this will not know my story, though some may do.
If you are on TikTok, Facebook, X, Youtube, or any other social media, there will be many influencers attempting to make you think a certain way. There will be people claiming to be all sorts of folk. There will be those describing themselves as experts, academics, philosophers, life coaches, even Guru’s and political or religious leaders giving you a version of what they will tell you is the verbatim truth. Many will do this to build upon your anger and mistrust of anyone different to yourself. There may be some that describe themselves as former ‘Christians’ or former ‘Muslims’ and make out that they had been indoctrinated into a cult, some in extreme situations may actually have been, certainly groomed or controlled by extremists, others will be using a fake background to draw you into the way they want you to think.
All I can say is I am no religious expert. In my youth I did read a little of the bible, a little of the Quran, took a passing interest in other beliefs, but am not well read on any. The one thing I will say is the most violent thing I did read was “an eye for an eye” but even that was not calling people to attack others, my view was that its a warning not an expectation. The other parts of the bible were teachings not instructions or orders, and I saw the same in the Quran, no demands for violence, no call to arms or war.
I was reading with an open mind, I chose to read what I did and had no one with reason for anger, fear or revenge interpreting them to me.
I do see religious writings including the bible and in particular the commandments as a form of social control. A way to keep society operating upon some level, and if needed a tool to quell uprisings.
My personal view is if there were a god, why would that being want its ‘creations’ to set about destroying the other creations, it makes no sense to me.
What does make sense is that we now should be living in a world where there are no slaves and no masters. A world where billionaires do not exist, where people can strive to improve their lives, but where all, globally, have a good basic standard of living. Party politics to me is now irrelevant, as all parties are owned by the same billionaires, corporations and sadly foreign powers.
Nationalist politics should be irrelevant too, we should at this stage of evolution and development as a species be beyond kings, emperors, leaders, corporate directors, and rulers. There should not be a careerist class of politicians, no bribery nor corruption.
We should be fighting to preserve our world as a world.
There is no need for poverty, for starvation, for deaths due to drought, pollution, hunger and definitely not war.
We should be living in a world where common sense is no longer so rare.
So all I ask is if you read my words, question them, and if you don’t agree with them seek out your own truths, but draw on your experiences, and if you are scared of a different community, culture or religion, reach out, visit them, speak to them.
The simple way to abolish all this hate is get to know those others we share this reality with.
It truly is that simple.
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Tag: #racism
I AM NOT RACIST! It’s their religion.
Isn’t it funny how we can relate to terms of hate when it comes to skin colour, language, ‘race’. We call that racism, and few British people like being labelled racist.
However the same people that shout “I am not racist, but…” show the same level of hate but focused upon people with other religions.
They will be at pains to explain how religion is not race
Right now the hate is often spouted against people which follow the Islamic faith. But historically it has been the Jewish, the Hindi, the sikh, Hindu, oh and yes Christian faiths that have been the focus of religious hate and discrimination.
Try being a Christian in the Roman Empire.
There however is no tidy, glib term to call someone out for religious discrimination. Yes you can call them discriminatory, you can call them bigoted, you can call then oppressive or haters, but their is no term that covers it as well as racist does for those with intolerance based upon race (mainly skin colour).
So why is it?
Why is there no truly common, collective term? Simple reason is division.
To fight a war you need to demonise your enemy, you need to dehumanise them and discredit their belief.
You need to show the power behind you is not just right and just, but that theirs is purely cruel and without moral foundation.
All wars in some way are backed up by religion and belief. All national armies have religious officials in uniform, whether padre, or chaplain as in the British army, a Padre holds the rank of Major, so they are free to communicate with all ranks. The British army has Muslim Padres as well as Christian, Sikh and other main religions.
Even soldiers of the Nazi ‘Third Reich’ had Gott mit uns on their belts, – God with us.
The Communist Russian Army focused more upon political officers, Commissars, they saw communism as their new religion,their empires faith, yet still they had unofficial religious leaders within units.
Religious hate is the absolute strongest motivating factor in making people fight each other. You can threaten their wealth, threaten their freedoms and it will take a long time for them to rise, but threaten their beliefs, then you will likely get a strong and very targeted reaction often immediately.
The people in Britain shouting their religious intolerance won’t have read the Koran, won’t even really have read the bible they are defending (I know I tried with both over the years and got bored, so gave up), they will tell you they are atheist and yet also Christian. They will only attend a church for an odd funeral or wedding. Yet they will be a self professed “expert” of Islam, and will tell you it is a religion based upon violence and hate. They will describe all the negatives that they believe because the press and sadly propaganda machine, or even such enlightened religious accademic leaders such as Tommeh many names Robinson.
I personally have no true knowledge of Islam, however, I know the vast majority of Muslims I have taken the time to know are genuine, respectful, friendly and affable people, as are the majority of Christians.
I personally have no formal religious beliefs, and any spirituality I hold is purely based upon my personal experiences and thoughts.
The idea that only Muslims carry out suicidal attacks against people again is often used as a way of discrediting the religion, however the Japanese Kamikaze pilots were not Islamic, the Forlorn hope of the British 18the Century Army were not Islamic, they were soldiers who went into the first wave of often impossible battles, partly for the prospect of promotion or recognition, but also as soldiers blessed by god.
The British battle honours are often displayed in churches, and all battles prior and often including WW2 and even currently were preceded by religious sermons.
So really why do we judge religions, or nations by the actions of a few.
I do not hate anyone for their religion, nor for the region they were born. Its their actions that influence me. I despise what I have seem the IDF carrying out, and can only with some cruel irony, liken it to the behaviour of the Waffen SS in Warsaw.
I despise expansionism, by any state or nation, that starts with displacement then quickly leads to murder and sadly as is now completely evident genocide.
So right now I hate what zionist Israel under Netanyahu is perpetuating, their genocide of the Palestinian civilians, but I do not hate the Jewish people, I do not hate the people of Israel, but those complicit in their crimes against Humanity do have my ire and their actions, motives and cruelty, I do despise.
So do no be proud of not being a racist, when to all true purposes you are just as bad, and are only not labelled by design of those who control us all.
Jonesy.
Jonesy, simply a human 